Button Click event and textbox.focus() not working

Question

Hello MSDN Forum...On my form1.vb [Design], I have a button control that the click event is to show form2 and focus textbox1. I used following code:

Form2.Show()

form2.Textbox1.focus()

It worked well initially but after build and publish it stopped working!! Form2 will show but textbox1 ain't focused! Secondly, I have another button on form2 to show form3 but the click will not show anything! Somebody help me out.

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Answer 1

Hi,

For your question, I can't see more details of your Form2, so I just created a sample:

In Form1, there is a button to open Form2:

Private Sub Button1_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        Dim form As Form2 = New Form2()
        form.Show()
        form.TextBox1.Focus()
    End Sub

In Form2, there are some TextBox controls:

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Answer 2

Hi,

 You could also set the TabIndex property of the TextBox to 0 and set the TabStop property to True. Then make sure that there is not another control on the form that has the TabIndex set to 0 also.

Answer 3

Also what is the code you use in the form2 button to open form3 ?

Answer 4

Simply place the Textbox focus in the activated event of form2

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